Denver Colorado-1958: Plains and Power Lines from Moving Car

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Year1958
Decade1950s
LocationDenver, Colorado, United States
Duration5s
Price$149 USD
Collection1958 Colorado

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Plains and Power Lines from Moving Car — Clip Details

Shot on 8mm film in 1958, this vintage home movie captures a moving view of the Colorado plains from a vehicle. The frame shows a vast, flat landscape under a cloudy sky, with power lines and an electrical pole passing by. A distant sign briefly appears at the end of the clip. The footage exhibits classic Super 8 grain, muted colors, and a slightly blurred motion, evoking a nostalgic sense of mid-century American travel and rural Americana.

Licensing & Technical Details

Original Format: 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie
Resolution: 4K restored master (MP4)
License: Direct license: commercial and editorial use
Delivery: Instant Digital Download
Duration: 5s
Price: $149 USD
Clip ID: 123603894

Rights & Clearance

$149 · Commercial Direct license: commercial and editorial use. $149 flat from Stockfilm. Royalty-free worldwide license for commercial and editorial use, delivered as the restored 4K master.

No recognizable people, logos, or music are flagged. Lower-risk for commercial use, subject to your own review.

People visible: No
Logos / trademarks: No
Audible music: No

Flags come from automated catalog metadata, not a legal opinion. The source is an original 8mm / Super 8 Home Movie reel. For high-stakes commercial use, request a full rights review.

Source & Documentation

Source reel: Reel 1634 · 8mm · 7″ reel
Original reel label: vacation,july,august,reel-1
Reel-level year note: 1958
Reel-level location note: colorado
Date: 1958 Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Date evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level note shows the same year, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Location: Denver, Colorado, United States Estimated (Catalog estimate from the footage and file metadata; not independently confirmed.)
Location evidence: Catalog estimate. A reel-level location note is linked, but the clip-to-reel link is itself a catalog match, so this is not counted as independent confirmation.
Licensing route: Direct license available from Stockfilm

Confidence labels are defined on Archive Integrity. Fields without a recorded value are shown as not recorded rather than assumed.

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Topics & Keywords

Archive Intelligence

Archive brief fit: Useful for 1950s documentary requests needing mid-century Colorado travel, rural road movement, or plains landscape atmosphere from 8mm home-movie footage.
Period detail: The clip may show 1950s roadside electrical infrastructure, open plains, low farm buildings, and a passing utility pole seen from a moving vehicle near Denver.
Home-movie behavior: The value is the casual passenger-window view, recording travel across a flat rural landscape without staging or visible people.
What appears in frame: Visible elements include dark frame borders, cloudy sky, flat fields, distant low buildings, power lines, mountains or low hills on the horizon, and a passing utility pole.
Film character: The 8mm scan has soft focus, muted color, visible grain, gate edges, and motion blur that give the travel view its physical home-movie texture.
Edit role: An editor could use this as a brief travel insert, road-transition shot, landscape cutaway, or memory beat between stronger location scenes.
Historical context: The footage offers visual context for mid-century automobile travel through open land around Denver, while the frames do not identify a precise road or landmark.
Research note: No people, logos, or private interiors are visible, but users should still review copyright status and any incidental property or signage in the source footage.
Research search match: Relevant searches include 1958 8mm Colorado plains driving footage, Denver rural road home movie, power lines from moving car, and mid-century American travel landscape.
Archive pairing path: Pair first with other shots from the same reel, then with 1958 Denver or Colorado material, and then with broader themes of road travel, plains, utilities, and rural Americana.

Still Frames From This Clip

1958 Colorado home-movie frame showing flat plains, distant low buildings, and power lines beneath a clouded sky. — Open plains and distant structures pass beneath a cloudy sky.

Moving 8mm view near Denver showing open fields, a distant horizon, and roadside power lines under heavy clouds. — Power lines run across the horizon over open Colorado plains.

1958 Denver-area travel frame with a roadside utility pole crossing the view over fields and distant horizon. — A utility pole passes close to the camera during the roadside view.

Soft 8mm frame of Colorado plains near Denver with power lines, low distant structures, and a muted cloudy sky. — The moving view continues across flat fields and roadside power lines.

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